East Knoyle

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 13761KNO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century / 17th century, Early English? / Restoration?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Road, East Knoyle, Wiltshire, SP3 6AE
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A350, 3 km SW of Hindon, 15 km S of Warminster, 24 W of Salisbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Downton
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the font of the pre-1066 church?) -- famous person font? Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) was born here and was the son of the rector
Font Notes:
Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Octagonal, with big fleshy leaves on the bowl and the coving connecting it with the shaft. The most likely date is the C17." The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 11, 1980) notes: "A church was standing at Knoyle before the Conquest. [...] Parts of the walls of the nave and of the western part of the chancel remain from a pre-Conquest church. Early features which survive are an exposed length of double plinth and cut back blind arcading on the north wall of the chancel, and possibly the north doorway." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish. [NB: we have no information on its pre-Conquest font].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 557636 5658920

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 231-232